Are We Using Chat Sheets to Deepen Our Relationships?

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There's a lot of financial interest in deepening our relationship, our social relationship to the technologies that we have. We're increasingly finding more and more meaning in those spaces than in connection with human beings around us. I think we need to be pushing on sort of the financial interests that are constraining our well-being. Well, they would find that or wouldn't be published roles. Let's remember there's some publication bias there probably, but it's provocative.

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